WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 983; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 879. The average score for Château Latour is 920, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Latour they use words like Fruit, Black, Full, Long, Tannins, Sweet, Tannin, Purple, Dark, Dense, Rich, Cassis, Deep, Ripe, Richness. The 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Latour: Endless, Orange, Liqueurs, Cocoa, Asian, Ambitious, Pepper, Szechuan, Triumph, Hushed. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (14% vs 12.93%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2010 (14% vs 13.47%). The wine will be ready to drink in 3 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 43 years (by 2060). It normally takes wines from Château Latour around 12 years to be ready to start drinking, and 20 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Léoville-Poyferré 2010, Château Margaux 2010, Château Palmer 2012, Château Latour 2003.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Latour 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
1080 |